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Bread and Circuses and Journalism

How to get readers interested in housing and land use? Bring in reality stars!

If you want to get a good sense of the travails of the modern press, look no further than Politico’s recent writeup of SB 79, Senator Scott Wiener’s new bill to mandate upzoning around transit stops. Importantly, this isn’t because it’s a bad article but precisely because it’s a good article (and not just because …

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